The US news media likes to present the 1960s in America as a "do your own thing" era.

In reality, the 1960s was an era of brutal political repression including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcom X, and Martin Luther King, among many others.

Few people know this, but a court that examined evidence in the Martin Luther King assassination determined that James Earl Ray was not the assassin and that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy.

Di Eugenio points out that before he was murdered, King became an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.

April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, high profile opponent of the Vietnam War, assassinated

June 4, 1968 - Robert J. Kennedy, high profile opponent of the Vietnam War, assassinated